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Picnic at Hanging Rock

Peter Weir

 
Picnic at Hanging Rock (Criterion DVD)

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  • Australia
  • 1975
  • 107 minutes
  • 1.66:1
  • English
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  • Spine #29

Twenty years after it swept Australia into the international film spotlight, Peter Weir’s stunning 1975 masterpiece remains as ineffable as the unanswerable mystery at its core. A Valentine’s Day picnic at an ancient volcanic outcropping turns to disaster for the residents of Mrs. Appleyard’s school when a few young girls inexplicably vanish on Hanging Rock. A lyrical, meditative film charged with suppressed longings, Picnic at Hanging Rock is here available in a pristine widescreen director’s cut with a Dolby digital 5.1 channel soundtrack.

Cast

Mrs. AppleyardRachel Roberts
Miss McCrawVivean Gray
Mlle. de PoitiersHelen Morse
Miss LumleyKirsty Child
TomTony Llewellyn-Jones
MinnieJacki Weaver
Mr. WhiteheadFrank Gunnell

Credits

DirectorPeter Weir
ScreenplayCliff Green
From the novel byJoan Lindsay
ProducerHal McElroy and Jim McElroy
CinematographyRussell Boyd
EditingMax Lemon
Art directorDavid Copping
Costume designJudith Dorsman

Disc Features

  • The long awaited director’s cut, with a new widescreen transfer and a new 5.1 surround mix
  • The original theatrical trailer
  • Liner notes by Vincent Canby
  • Subtitles for the deaf and hearing impaired

    New cover by Andy Goldman

Film Essays

Picnic at Hanging Rock

By Vincent CanbyOctober 19, 1998

Horror need not always be a long-fanged gentleman in evening clothes or a dismembered corpse . . . Read more »

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Film Essays

Picnic at Hanging Rock

By Vincent CanbyOctober 19, 1998

Horror need not always be a long-fanged gentleman in evening clothes or a dismembered corpse . . . Read more »